Tithes and offerings are divine injunction to believers and God’s financial policy to bless Christians according to scripture in Malachi 3:7,12. Tithes is also a way of sustaining and executing God’s projects in the church. Tithes and offerings are the sources through which God executes his financial projects in the church.

Tithes represents one tenth of one’s gross income. Tithes should be deducted first from the gross income before other expenses are attended to. As a salary earner, once the salary is paid, tithes should be deducted and given to God immediately because it belongs to him. While business men and women are to calculate their daily or monthly profits and remove one tenth as tithes. Obedience and faithfulness in paying tithes attract blessings and open doors while disobedience brings calamity and hardship.

Tithes and offering are obligations on all believers. It’s not a choice but a commandment from the Lord. There are instances of people who paid tithes in the scriptures. Abraham paid tithes to Melchizedek, the King of Salem, who was a typical of God. Jacob also paid one tenth of all that the Lord blessed him with. Similarly, when a believer makes a vow to the Lord, it is required that he fulfills that vow. Jacob made a vow unto the Lord and he kept to his promise. It is instructive to note that whoever touches or eats his tithes, attract a curse to the work of his hands.

Tithes was paid in the time of law and the Kings. The Lord gave this commandments to various dispensations. In the time of the prophets, tithes was also paid. At various times and dispensations, those who paid tithes, did it faithfully and received abundant blessings.

As believers, we are to pay our tithes to the Lord, at the altar where we receive teachings and blessings from the Lord. It is wrong to pay tithes to orphanage homes or to use it for charity organization. There is no place in the scriptures where God commanded it! Unfortunately, modern social media preachers have misled their followers to pay their tithes to orphanage homes.

Tithes is to be paid promptly without delays. Those who delay their tithes, delay their blessings and open doors for devourers. Conversely, those who are faithful in paying their tithes will never suffer loss. In fact, God assures that he would rebuke devourers for their sake; they will not cast their young; their businesses will flourish; where others encounter defeat; they will encounter breakthrough.

Jesus Christ was in support of tithes in the New Testament. In the book of Matthew 23:23, he unequivocally rebuked the hypocrisy of the Pharisees and established tithes. He never condemned tithes but spoke in support of it to buttress the fact that he came not to destroy the law but to fulfill it. Christ came to fulfill the scriptures. The foundational Apostles, on the other hand, established tithes in their teachings.

Offering is different from tithes. It is a freewill offering to the Lord. It must be given with a cheerful heart and the offering must not be blemish. The money that is being offered to the Lord, must not be dirty or torn; it must be clean and pure. Whenever offering is given, it is expected that the individual sends a definite message through the offerings to the Lord.

Texts: Malachi 3:7,12

REFERENCES : Gen. 14:13-20; 28:10-22; 35:1-15; Numbers 18:20-21,24 ; Lev. 27:30-31; 2 Chron. 31:11-12; Nehemiah 13:12; 10:38; Mal. 3:8; Deut. 26: 12; Mal. 3:10-12; Mat. 23:23; Luke 11:42; Matt. 13:52; Heb. 7:5-10; Lev. 22:17-25; 1 Pt. 1:19; Mal. 1:13-14.

To attract God’s blessings to your life and businesses this year, be faithful in paying your tithes and offerings.

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